"Laurel True" American artist, architectural artist, muralist and mosaic/mosaic artist.

True, founder of one of the first formal mosaic institutes in the United States, Institute of Mosaic Art, was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

True's career began in 1990 with an apprenticeship with Outsider Art/outsider mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar working on site-specific architectural mosaics and evolved into one focused on large-scale public and community mosaic projects. An instructor and lecturer in the US since the mid-1990s, True maintains an active studio practice and travels to West Africa and other locations to work on large-scale mosaic projects involving local communities.

She currently resides in Oakland, California and New Orleans.

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This is the only store in California with all you need to make any type of mosaic art.

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Being a self-supporting artist, I had to go slowly, step by step, to reach my goal. Now we are working to become a nonprofit organization and get grants to teach this wonderful art to kids and youth.

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Since I started, I had this vision of creating a safe, comfortable place to seriously explore the thousands of possibilities of mosaic making.

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Here is where our workshops are held.

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